06-10-2013, 02:29 PM | #1 |
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Would you pay extra for a an error-free ebook?
Almost all of the ebooks I buy from the big publishers have far more errors than the paper versions, including many spelling errors that would have been caught by even the most basic of spell checkers.
I wonder how much money those publishers are losing because of this? Would you pay extra, and if so how much, for an ebook that had some form of error-free guarantee? The guarantee might not be absolute, perhaps just that there is no more than one error per 10,000 words. I would gladly pay an extra 20% for a book that came with such a guarantee. |
06-10-2013, 02:34 PM | #2 |
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Nah. I make so many typos myself I have grown accustomed to them
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06-10-2013, 02:35 PM | #3 |
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So, would I have to pay more money for them to make well their job? I don't think so.
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06-10-2013, 02:39 PM | #4 |
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I expect the book to be error-free, so no, I would not pay extra for an error-free version. If they had an error-free version, wouldn't they have put that one out?
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06-10-2013, 02:45 PM | #5 |
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Think of it another way. Say you had the choice of buying a book from one of the big publishers, or the same book from another publisher that provided an error-free guarantee. Would you still buy the one without the guarantee just because it was one cent cheaper?
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06-10-2013, 03:03 PM | #6 |
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If there was only one cent difference, of course, I'd buy it error-free.
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I swear I must read the wrong (or the right) books. Or I'm just ridiculously lucky. People keep talking about all these errors in ebooks from big publishing houses and I just don't see them. No more so than I always would have in the physical book, anyway.
If they're there and I'm just not noticing ... well there's your answer as to whether or not I would pay more for an error-free version. Quote:
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06-10-2013, 04:11 PM | #8 |
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I won't pay extra for a BPH to do their job or stop hiring out to the lowest bidder in India to botch (er make) their eBooks.
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06-10-2013, 04:27 PM | #9 |
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Why should I pay extra for something that should be correct, or do there terms and conditions state, that since they cant be bothered they can push anything on you.
I think it should be the other way around, should we expect partial refunds for errors. |
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Seriously though, it's not too much to expect a certain quality control being put forth into a product that costs money. Oh, and I`d just like to point out that White Lung by Grant Buday is the most error-prone book in the history of ebooks. Or at least the product Kobo is selling anyways. |
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06-10-2013, 05:06 PM | #11 |
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Ditto. I simply haven't seen a lot of errors in e-books from the major houses, and those are pretty much the only e-books I read.
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06-10-2013, 05:08 PM | #12 |
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OCR errors can be quite a mess in backlist eBooks.
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06-10-2013, 05:09 PM | #13 |
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the other question is... Why can't eBooks be well formatted? Most are not something I would want my name on either as author, publisher, or creator of the eBook.
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06-10-2013, 05:11 PM | #14 | |
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If you were offered say a 20% refund if a book you buy contains errors, but you find that the book in fact has no errors, then you have in effect paid 25% extra for an error-free book. |
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06-10-2013, 05:55 PM | #15 |
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This is why I don`t feel so bad stripping the DRM from a lousy product that I`ve paid for in order to make the necessary changes to have a readable book.
And a question: would book x be identical (in terms of correct grammar, punctuation etc.) between Kobo & Amazon? Just curious. |
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